Five Factor Model Of Leadership

Leadership Personalities There are many theories that try to explain leadership behaviors and styles. Nonetheless, none of them disputes the importance of personal characteristics and their impact on the leadership style. Earlier on, leadership theorists applied characteristics and traits to explain leadership success (Khaireddin, 2015). Leaders have different personalities to their followers. Superior personality traits are associated with successful leadership. Consequently, certain personality traits are positively linked to better team performance and leader effectiveness. Some of these traits include agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness and surgency (Marsiglia, 2005). Personality traits are habitual means of reacting to circumstances that become stable …show more content…
The study concluded that there was a strong relationship between transformational leadership and personality (Ployhart, Lim & Chan, 2001). Other researchers Judge & Bono (2000) agreed with the above findings that there is a strong correlation between transformational leadership and the Five Factor Model. Of the five personality traits, agreeableness and extroversion predicted transformational leadership. Experience and openness were positively correlated to a transformational leader. The other traits, conscientiousness and neuroticism, had no relation to transformational leadership. Judge & Bono (2000) concluded that there is an underlying importance of personality traits when organizations select leaders. The Five Factor model is also linked to ethical leadership. And ethical leadership affects employee and organizational behavior. Therefore, the five dimensions can be utilized to predict ethical leadership. Studies indicated that neuroticism is negatively related to ethical leadership. The other dimensions were discovered to be crucial antecedents to ethical leadership (Özbağ,